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Robert Browning’s Poetry

Contents

  • New Preface
  • A Note on the Texts
  • The Texts of the Poems
  • The Experimental Phase (1833-45)
  • New Pauline; A Fragment of a Confession (1833-1888)
  • From Paracelsus (1835)
  • From Sordello (1840)
  • Pippa Passes (1841)
  • From Dramatic Lyrics (1842)
    • My Last Duchess
    • Count Gismond
    • New Incident of the French Camp
    • Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
    • In a Gondola
    • Cristina
    • Johannes Agricola in Meditation
    • Porphyria’s Lover
    • The Pied Piper of Hamelin
  • From Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)
    • “ How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix”
    • Pictor Ignotus
    • New The Italian in England
    • New The Englishman in Italy
    • New The Lost Leader
    • Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
    • [“Here’s to Nelson’s Memory!”]
    • Home-Thoughts, from the Sea
    • The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed’s Church
    • New Garden Fancies
    • The Flower’s Name
    • Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis
    • The Laboratory
    • Meeting at Night; Parting at Morning
  • The Major Phase (1855-69)
  • From Men and Women (1855)
    • Love Among the Ruins
    • A Lovers’ Quarrel
    • Up at a Villa—Down in the City
    • A Woman’s Last Word
    • Fra Lippo Lippi
    • A Toccata of Galuppi’s
    • By the Fire-Side
    • New Mesmerism
    • An Epistle . . . of Karshish, the Arab Physician
    • My Star
    • “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
    • Respectability
    • A Light Woman
    • The Statue and the Bust
    • How it Strikes a Contemporary
    • The Last Ride Together
    • New The Patriot— An Old Story
    • Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha
    • Bishop Blougram’s Apology
    • Memorabilia
    • Andrea del Sarto
    • New In a Year
    • New “De Gustibus— ”
    • Women and Roses
    • Holy-Cross Day
    • The Guardian-Angel
    • Cleon
    • Popularity
    • Two in the Campagna
    • A Grammarian’s Funeral
    • “Transcendentalism: A Poem in Twelve Books”
    • One Word More
  • From Dramatis Personae (1864)
    • Dîs aliter Visum
    • Abt Vogler
    • Rabbi Ben Ezra
    • Caliban upon Setebos
    • Confessions
    • New Youth and Art
    • New A Likeness
    • Prospice
    • Apparent Failure
    • Epilogue
  • From The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
    • Book V. Count Guido Franceschini
    • New Book VII. Pompilia
    • Book X. The Pope
  • The Later Achievement (after 1870)
  • From Fifine at the Fair (1872)
    • Prologue (Amphibian)
    • Epilogue (The Householder)
  • From Aristophanes’ Apology (1875)
    • [Thamuris Marching]
  • From Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper: With Other Poems (1876)
    • House
    • Fears and Scruples
    • Numpholeptos
  • From Jocoseria (1883)
    • Adam, Lilith, and Eve
    • Never the Time and the Place
  • From Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day (1887)
    • With Christopher Smart
  • From Asolando: Fancies and Facts (1889)
    • Prologue
    • Bad Dreams. I
    • Bad Dreams. II
    • Bad Dreams. III
    • Bad Dreams. IV
    • “Imperante Augusto Natus Est— ”
    • Development
    • Epilogue
  • Prose
  • From “Introductory Essay” to The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1852)
  • Criticism
  • Victorian Views
  • John Forster • Evidence of a New Genius for Dramatic Poetry
  • Thomas Carlyle • [Letter to Browning]
  • George Eliot • [Review of Men and Women]
  • William Morris • [Browning’s Alleged Carelessness]
  • John Ruskin • [Browning and the Italian Renaissance]
  • Walter Bagehot • [Browning’s Grotesque Art]
  • Robert W. Buchanan • [The Ring and the Book]
  • Alfred Austin • The Poetry of the Period: Mr. Browning
  • Algernon Charles Swinburne • [Browning’s Obscurity]
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins • [Strictures on Browning]
  • Oscar Wilde • [Browning as “ Writer of Fiction” ]
  • Henry James • Browning in Westminster Abbey
  • Modern Essays in Criticism
  • Robert Langbaum • The Dramatic Monologue: Sympathy versus Judgment
  • New Herbert F. Tucker • Dramatic Monologue and the Overhearing of Lyric
  • New Isobel Armstrong • The Politics of Dramatic Form
  • New Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor • The Pragmatics of Silence, and the Figuration of the Reader in Browning’s Dramatic Monologues
  • New Catherine Maxwell • Browning’s Pygmalion and the Revenge of Galatea
  • New Daniel Karlin • Browning’s Poetry of Intimacy
  • Interpretations of Poems
  • New Stefan Hawlin • Browning’s “A Toccata of Galuppi’s” : How Venice Once Was Dear
  • Harold Bloom • Browning’s “Childe Roland” : All Things Deformed and Broken
  • New Erik Gray • Andrea del Sarto’s Modesty
  • New Isobel Armstrong • Browning’s “Caliban” and Primitive Language
  • Robert Browning: A Chronology
  • New Selected Bibliography
  • Index of Titles